Combined door catch and buffer



-- Jan. 1, 1924 1,479,398

Y 3. 0. OLLARD COMBINED DOOR CATCH AND BUFFER Origifial Filed Oct. 28.1920 Patented Jan. 1, 1924.

COMBINED DOOR CATCH AN'D BUFFER.

Application filed October 28, 1920, Serial No. 420,228.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, JAMES C. OLLARD, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chester, in the county of Delaware and State ofPennsylvania, have invented'new and useful Improvements in Combined DoorCatches and Buffers, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to a combined door catch and buffer. l

One of the annoying features of a Ford car is the necessity for closingthe door with a bang. The nature of the door latch compels thisexcessively noisy closing. The door latch as designed must fit' into anabsolutely snug and tight fitting latch cavity and this necessitates thenoisy closing of the door.

It is an object of the present invention to previde a combined bufferand door catch designed to cooperate with the door latch of a Ford orother car and adapted to permit the door to be closed slowly and gentlyand at the same time to be positively and securely fastened.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a simple,practical and eflicient combined door catch durable and inexpensiveconstructon designed particularly for use on Ford cars, but adapted alsoto be advantageously employed on various other makes of automobiles andalso on all door frames of any make for cushioning a'door and formaintaining the same in tight engagement with the latch or keeper toprevent noise and rattling, while at the same time maintaining the doorfirmly in locked engagement,

It is also an object of the invention to provide a combined door catchand buffer of this character adapted to be constructed of either pressedsteel or similar. material or as a casting and designed for use onstopless door frames where the face or edge of the door frame is, madeplain without a rabbet to receive a free portion of the door.

A further object of the invention is to provide a combined door catchand buffer in which, when the same is constructed of pressed steel, theparts maybe securely fastened in assembled relation by a single rivet orsimilar fastening means and in which the catch or keeper member may beconstructed of a drop forging, or other material, and will be arrangedto brace-and support the pressed steel portions.

and buffer of strong,

Renewed May 1, 1923. Serial No. 513,552.

With these and other objects in'view, the

UNITED srres PATEN OFFICE;

invention consists in the novel construction,

combination and arrangementof parts hereinafter fullydescribed,'illustrated in the accompanying drawingsand pointed out inthe claims hereto appended, it being under stood that various changes inthe form, roportion, and minor details of construction, within thescope'of the claims, may be resorted to without departing from thespirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings in which like characters" of reference designatecorresponding parts in the several figures igure 1 is a side elevationof; a combined 7 doorcatc and buffer embodying the invention andconstructed of pressed steel.

Figure 2 is a front elevation of the same. Figure 3 is a plan view ofthe combined door catch and buffer.

Figure at is a central, horizontal sectional view of the same.

Figure 5 is a front elevation of a combined door catch and bufferconsisting of a casting and shown applied to a door frame,

the latter being in section.

Figure 6 is a plan view of the combined door catch and buffer shown inFigure 5. Figures 7 and 8 are elevations of the same. 7 V

Figure 9 is a horizontal sectional view on the line 99 of Figure 8.

eferring 5 inclusive of the drawings in which the combined door catchand buffer is constructed of pressed steel, a single piece of pressedsteel or other suitable material is bent intermediate of its ends toform an end connecting wall 1 and front and rear walls 2 and 3, the rearwall 3 having an outer portion 4 in parallelism with the front wall 2and an inner portion 5 arranged. at an angle to the parallel portion 4and extending therefrom to the front wall 2 at the inner portion thereofto form with the said front wall-2 a casing having an outersubstantially U-shaped portion and an inner or V-shaped portion. Theterminals 6 and 7 of the pressed steel are bent at right angles to theparticularly to F igures, 1 to front wall to form attaching portions andi i right angles to the inner wall 2 and a catch or keeper 10'is securedin the anglevby a '13 of a door 14. The catch or single riret ll whichalso secures theterminal portions 6 and 7 of the pressed steel togetherand to the catch or keeper. The rivet pierces the said terminal portionsand the catch or keeper and its terminals are headed and countersunk;in. the inaterialas clearly shown in Figure 4: of the drawings,

but one or more fastening devices maybe,

any suitable form he used for conthe pressed steel of course employedand of fastening device may nee-ting the terminals of aud tor securingthe catcher keeper to the same. 7 r a The catch or keeper whichpreferably consists'ot a drop 'torging, may be constructee t anyothersuitable material 'vided wit-ha lugorprojection 12 rounded and it isproor beveled atthe iront andt'orming-a shoulder at the backfor engagingwith the latch keeper 10 presents flat faces to the attaching member andto the inner wall otgthe casing and it braces and-supports the pressedsteel at an angle formed by the attaching member and the casing.)

I The latch'13 of the door i l is maintained firmly in engagement withthe catch or keeper 10 by; a springpressed door engaging member 15 whichis inthetormot a tapered hollow cap. The hollow cap extends through anopening16 in the front wall of the casing and is provided witha stopflange 17" and receives one end of a coiled spring 19. The coiled spring19 which may be has its other end' tapered or cylindrical seated againstthe rcar wall 3 which 1S preferably provided with the protuberance 20formed by indenting the outer portion {4 of its wall- 3 the front of thecasing. The door in closing engages its latch with the catchor keeper 10and presses the doorengaging member 15 inwardly compressing the spr ng19 and placing the same under sufficient tension to "maintain'thelatchof the door iirmly in engagement with the projecting portion of thecatch or keeper-10.

=The device isadaptedtor use'on all kinds of door frames but-isespecially adapted for Iford cars and -thetwo ply attaching member isprovidedwith a plurality of'per'torations-"21 preferablylocated, aboveand below the catch or keeper as shown in Flgure 1 for the receptionof-screws or other suitabletastening devices for secur ng the combineddoor catch and 'bu'firto; the door frame.

*lnF-iguresbto' Er -inclusive, is illustrated a form of theinvention-in'which th'e'casing 22 en -opening of the .*'front wall and arranged to be"holding the latch 0 and the attaching member Q-Bgare termed of a singlecasting; The casing, -which is preferably ,lar at the outer endiat 24,is tapered at the rounded or substantially semi-circuinner portion at 25and is provided at the angle formed by the attaching member and thefront wall 26 of the casing with a catch orke'eper 27' bracing andreinforcing the device at the said angle and provided with a projectinglug-'28 for engagement "by the latch :29 of thedoor 30.; ;T he i rontwall 26 is provided with an opening "extends a taperedtliollow doorengaging member and actuated -fb' y a 3i through which coiled cushioningspring-33 extending into' hearing at one end the hollow capv and againstthe same and at'its'other end-against a protnberance 3% oi -the rearwall -The hollow cap 1s provided at itsinner end with 4 a stop flang'e36toliniit-the outward movement of the door engaging member and theangularly disposed portion of the rear wall shown in the form of theinvention illusrated in Figures 1'to4 inclusive is omitted inthe formillustrated =in aFigures5to 9 in- 'clus'ivexto provide an opening 37 forassembling the parts. In the torm ofthe invention shownin Figures-1 tol, the casing is shown and permits 'the rotary assembling cf'the 'dooropen-atthe top and bottom as engaging member and-the spring. =Tl1eattachingineniber of-the device is provided with perforations 88 for thereception of screws 39 for attachingthe devi'ce'tothe deor'trame. f

It will beQseen-th'at by enlargingthe space or cavity betweenthe inneredge o't'the catch of the buifeirto or keeper and the casin receive theengaging portion of the latch of the door that the door is adapted to beclosed slowly and gently without force or sound andflits latchpositivelyengaged with the catch or keeperi This will eliminate all noise incloslng and the buffer which "sush 1 ons the closing of the door w1llmaintain the latch thereof firmly against the catch or keeper so thatthere will be 'no noise or rattling resulting from theeenlarging of thelatch-receiving cavity. 7

What is claimed 1s: a

'1. A combined door catch and buffer comprising a casi ng composed ofinnerand outer walls and a connecting'wa-ll' or portion, said casingbeing provide'dat theinnerwall with an opening and {havingan attachingmember arrangedat an angle-to theinneir wall, a

catch' or' keeper located at the said'attachirig member and adapted tobe engaged by the catch of a door, and an anchored door member extendingthrough the placed under tension the 'door "for with -the' catch: orkeeper. 7

2. A combined dor oatch and-b1ifier .com-

ca '32 form in a a .i a n t the latter in engagement prising a casingcomposed of inner and outer walls and a connecting wall or portion, saidcasing being provided at the inner wall with an opening and having anattaching member arranged at an angle to the inner wall, a catch orkeeper located at the angle formed by the attaching member and extendingalong the same from the front wall and provided with a projectingportion adapted to be engaged by the latch of a door, and a cushioneddoor engaging member extending through the opening of the front wall ofthe casing. v

3. A combined door catch and buffer comprising a casing having a frontopening and provided with a tapered inner portion and having anattaching member extending from the tapered inner portion at rightangles thereto, said casing being open at the tapered portion, a catchor keeper located at the attaching member and arranged to be engaged bythe latch of a door, and a cushioned door engaging member carried by thecasing and arranged to be engaged by the door for holding the latchthereof against the catch or keeper.

4. A combined door keeper and casing comprising a casing constructed ofa single piece of metal bent to form an end wall and inner and outerside walls and having its terminal portions fitted together and bent atan angle to the casing to form a two ply attaching portion, a catch orkeeper and fastening means piercing the catchor keeper and the terminalportions of the metal of the casing and securing the said partstogether.

5. A combined door catch and buffer comprising a casing constructed of asingle piece of metal bent to form an end wall and inner and outer sidewalls and having its terminal portions fitted together and bent at anangle to the casing to form a two ply attaching portion, a catch orkeeper fitted in the angle formed b the attaching member and extendingalbng the latter, a fastening device piercing the catch or keeper andthe terminal portions of the metal of the casing said casing beingtapered at its inner portion and being open thereat, and a cushioneddoor engaging member carried by the casing.

6. A combined door catch prising a casing constructed of a single pieceof metal bent to form front and rear walls and a connecting endwall,-thelatter being split at opposite sides adjacent the front andrear walls and thesplit portions inwardly against the said front walls,said front and rear walls having-re cesses receiving the split portionsof the end wall, acatch carried by the casing and tin ranged at an angleto the same, and a cushioned door engaging member also mounted on thecasing. V

7. A combined door catch and buffer comp'ising a casing constructed of asingle piece 0 metal bent to form front and rear walls and buffer comibeing bent and rear.

and a connecting end wall, the latter being split at opposite sidesadjacent the front and rear walls and the split portions being bentinwardly against the said front and rear walls, said front and rearwalls having end wall, and the terminals of the metal of the casingbeing bent at right angles to the same to form an attaching member, acatch or keeper secured to the attaching member,

a door engaging member extending through the front wall of the casingand a spring arranged within the casingand cushioning the door engagingmember.

A combined door catch and buffer comprising a fixed catch located at theframeor jamb of the door and a buffer having cushioning means andextending from the catch at an angle thereto and provided with receivingthe split portions of the an engaging portion spaced inwardly from thecatch, a distance materially greater than the size of the latch of adoor, whereby the door is adapted to be closed slowly, gently,noislessly, ranged to maintain the latch of the door firmly inengagement with the said fixed catch.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

JAMES C. OLLARD.

no the cushioning means being ar- 1

